Design And Performance Lab
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DESIGN IN MOTION // CHOREOGRAPHY // PROJECT PHASES
world premiere: "The river of no one" - March 12, 2022
The river of no one, Telepresence Stage 2022
London premiere: "Mourning for a dead moon"
Mourning for a dead moon: world premiere- December 7th, 2019
FOR THE INTERNATIONAL METABODY FORUM and METAKIMOSPHERE NO. 3 - London April 4-9, 2016 - GO HERE
For the PREMIERE of METAKIMOSPHERE no.1, March 31, 2015 go here
For the PREMIERE of METAKIMOSPHERE no.2, Madrid July 2015 go here
For the PREMIERE of METAKIMOSPHERE no.4, May 27, 2017 go here
For the PREMIERE of METAKIMOSPHERE no.5, December 9, 2017 go here
The DAP-lab's current research program
is supported by the EU Culture Programme as part of the collaborative
trans-european METABODY research project. DAP-Lab
is one of the co-organizers of the Metabody Project and has started to work with new partners in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands on the
creation of two new prototype performance designs. Visit our METABODY project archive.
The
founding of DAP-LAB in 2004 Emerging
from the Telematic Performance Lab at Nottingham Trent University,
the first phase of design/performance experiments directed by Johannes
Birringer and Michèle Danjoux in autumn 2004 featured design
concepts by Danjoux, Jo Cope and Gemma Harrison. These initial workshops
brought together young designers from fashion (Cope, Harrison, later
joined by Siobhan McHugh and Emma Wilkes), performance (Marie Denis,
Natalie Verhaegen, Natasha Stott), photography (Yoon Bo Shim), and
fine art (Helen Knight). The
second workshop series (March - May 2005) expanded the film and movement
studies of DAP-Lab's investigations focussing on Danjoux's
design-in-motion principles, combining the research into
sensual technologies and live streaming performance. The
March 2005 workshop culminated in an all night live interactive performance
of "Telematic Dress" (click here)
The "Emergent Dress" signals phases III-IV of the DAP-Lab,
featuring design concepts by Michèle Danjoux, and consolidating
online collaborative partnership drected by Birringer with the Department
of Dance, Ariziona State University. See our partner
site in Arizona,
click here. In
2006, the Lab's relocated to Brunel University, London, starting
research collaboration between artists, scientists and engineers for
Phases IV-V. These phases resulted in the development of new prototypes
[Teshigahara collection], and the production (Phase VI) of the performance
work Suna no Onna exhibited in London in
late fall of 2007 and spring of 2008. The
Lab's subsequent performance research project (2008- 2010) is entitled
UKIYO (Moveable World), developing new transcultural
partnerships with artists in Japan. The new production went on tour
to Slovenia in 2010 before premiering at Sadler's Wells, London. DAP-Lab
now works at the cutting edge of new peformance concepts and architectures
with intelligent wearables and audio-visual choreographies. After
a longer development phase, Danjoux's new audiophonic wearables form
the core of for the time being, staged at
Watermans Art Center in a first version of the new opera in 2012.
Built as an homage to the 1913 futurist opera "Victory over the
Sun," the opera was considerably expanded for its premiere at
Sadlers Wells in April 2014. The
DAP-lab's most research program was supported by the EU Culture
Programme as part of the collaborative METABODY
grant project (2013-2017). DAP-Lab was one of the co-organizers of the Metabody
Project, and from 2015 onward began to develop a series of large scale kinetic atmospheres (kimospheres) which have been exhibited in Spain, Germany, France and England.
For the new whisper room and moon series of rehearsals go here
Constructing Realities - Kinetic Atmospheres:
DAP-Lab invites to a first cross-discipline masterclass at Brunel University, 20 Frebruary 2018, open to all students and staff and guests, initiating the new CreativeFutures@Brunel digital masterclass series
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Anne Laure Misme [above left], Helenna Ren, Caroline Wilkins, Michèle Danjoux & Eng Tat Khoo working in Mixed Reality Lab residency, Tokyo, December 2009.
Research/Production team
Lab directors and principal investigators: Johannes Birringer (Performance, Brunel University) & Michèle Danjoux (Fashion, LCF).
Paul Verity Smith (Sensor programming/Photography, Research Associate), Oded Ben-Tal (music, Research Associate), Katsura Isobe (Dancer), Helenna Ren (Performance, Research Associate), Doros Polydorou (3D motion graphics, Brunel University), Hsueh-Pei Wang (design, technotextiles, Brunel University), Dr Maozhen Li (Engineering and Design, Brunel University, Research Associate); Dr Jinsheng Kang (Engineering and Design, Brunel University), Dr Olu Taiwo (Performance/Media Art, Research Associate, Winchester University), Mamen Rivera (lighting, Research Associate), Caroline Wilkins (music, performance), Miguel Alonso (Ligthing, Research Associate, Barcelona), Yiorgos Bakalos (actor, Research Associate), Anne Laure Misme (Performance, MA Brunel Drama), Sandy Finlayson (sound processes, Research Associate), Jennifer McColl (MPhil Brunel Drama), Giulia Tonucci (Visiting Student, Bologna), Yoko Ishiguro (performance artist;MA Performance Making, Brunel) , Ross Jennings (actor/BA Theatre, Brunel),Aggeliki Margeti (dancer;MA Performance Making, Brunel), Oliver Doyle (sound, music), Cameron McKirdy (software programmer/performance arist;BA Theatre,Brunel), Graeme Shaw (Sound Technican; Music/Sonic Arts, Brunel, John Richards (electronics engineer/sound artist; de Montf University), Aleksandar Tomic (director, Philharmonic Lights) , Hae-In Song (dancer/choreographer/techno-shaman, Phd researcher, Brunel), Vanessa Michielon (dancer, Turino/London), Manaskarn Insang (dancer, Bangkok), Rosella Galindo (dancer/researcher, Mexico DF), Sara S. Belle (musician/performer, MA Music Brunel); Zhi Xu (dancer/choreographer, Phd researcher Brunel), Dee Egan (sonic artist), Elisabeth E. Sutherland (dancer/performance artist, Ghana), Yohai Hakak (psychologist, dancer), Louie Marlow (sonic artist) and Sahar Sajadieh (digital artist, UC Santa Barbara).
Associates: Yukihiko Yoshida (dance reseracher, Keio University, Japan), Macarena Ortuzar (dancer/choreographer, Oxford), Chris Bishop (network artist/software artist; Monash University), Azzie McCutcheon (choreographer/dancer), Martina Reynolds (theatre producer/social scientist), Maria Wiener (Digital Artist/Postdoctoral Fellow), Umut Ozbay (sound, Istanbul); Jonathan Reus (electronic artist/sound artist), Neal Spowage (sound artist/electronics artist). Emma Filtness (writer/poet), Eve Gabarre (filmmaker), Niluefer Ovalioglu (Performance, Research Student), Cidinha Fursan Bendixen (Creative Collaborations, Research Student),Luca Forcucci (composer, sonic artist), Nam Eun Song (Performance, Research Student, Jo Cope (Fashion Researcher), Siobhan McHugh (Fashion Researcher).
Founding D A P-lab directors: Johannes Birringer & Michèle Danjoux
(c) DAP-Lab